Message from Microsoft: Windows XP support ended April 8, 2014. We’re here to help.

[liberal N proud]

Now that support and security updates for Windows XP are no longer available, it’s important that you take steps to protect the personal information on your home PC. Explore your options and find out what you can do today.

Received this message form Microsoft today regarding XP operating systems. Why did I get it? I have no idea, I don't have XP, I have a PC with Vista that I should have upgraded when I could still get Windows 7, but OH well.


But "We’re here to help" You kill support and then say you are there to help?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. "We're here to help by telling you to get our craptastic Windows 8" nt

[hobbit709]

2. If you ever used M$ Help you know it is anything but.

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One place I worked at had this tracking software so that you could check the status of the items on the production line.
Across the bottom of the screen it listed what the purpose of the function keys was.
It said "For Help, Press F1"
When you pressed F1, up popped a screen saying "There is no help for this subject"
The stuporvisor never could understand why I thought that was hilarious.

[hlthe2b]

3. What slays me is that there are numerous governmental agencies (US & elsewhere)

worldwide that are dependent on Winxp and for whom, Microsoft WILL continue to support (as reported in multiple articles the past several months), but the public? Hell no.

[frylock]

16. they'll pay for that support..

it's not coming free of charge.

[hlthe2b]

17. Well, naturally--duh....

Given the support is being paid for, MS could damn well provide it to the public as well--even for a reasonable charge.

[frylock]

18. this is a 13 year-old operating system we're talking about..

it was a good run, but the public needs to move on and upgrade to a newer OS.

[hlthe2b]

21. thank you, Mr. Microsoft. I have $$$ of statistial software that won't run on Win 7 or 8

WHICH, is precisely why so many governments are likewise sticking with winxp (and paying big tax $$ to maintain it).

For your information, my primary computer is win7. (Win 8 is known throughout the tech world as the dud it truly is and won't be on any machine of mine)...

Cut the condescension. I don't deserve it.

[frylock]

22. Mr. Microsoft? Cut the condescension?

fascinating.

[hlthe2b]

23. Sorry, but defending Microsoft is not very popular with me...

and I'm tired of those who assume everyone else, including those who complain re: MS is a Luddite. If I misread your intent, my apologies.

[Orrex]

4. That's what the militia guys in "Bowling for Columbine" said, too.

"We're here to help."


Hmm...

[snooper2]

5. nobody needs your help with XP, that's why everyone has kept it so long, stupid Microsoft

[lpbk2713]

9. MS XP Updates has screwed up my machine more than once.

Thanks but no thanks Bill.

[sendero]

19. Exactly..

... which is why I turned them off 2 years before I stopped using XP.

And I had no issues, it worked fine until I got a new computer with W7 (which I really like).

So, I get a chuckle out of folks who think the day updates stop coming they will be immediately subsumed by Borg malware. Not if they have a router/gateway and firewall and don't click every stupid unknown link and open every dubious document. If you are determined to get an infected computer I'm sure you can.

[tridim]

6. Why doesn't Commodore support my Vic-20 any more????11 :( :( :( Pouuuuuut. ...

Microsoft doesn't support BASIC on my ALTAIR either, fucking assholes.

[Cooley Hurd]

15. .

MS supported XP for 12 freaking years! And people are STILL whining?

7 is a great OS and 8.11 (technically "Windows 8.1 'Update') is stable and has restored functionality back to the desktop environment. RIP, XP. Time to move on...

[Vashta Nerada]

7. Windows 8 is better than XP.

People need to quit whining about it and just upgrade.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Having used it for months, I say with enthusiasm

that it's rather sucktastic. To each his own, but it's a mess.

[tridim]

10. Keep in mind, most people whining about Windows 8 are doing it from their Macs and iPhones.

If they had ever used Windows 8 and XP they would know the desktops (where work is done) are exactly the same.

People will bash Microsoft until the end of time. It's a natural law.

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. The person above you has never owned a Mac or an iPhone in her life.

Current computer: lenovo

Current phone: Pantech (yeah, I'm cheap like that. )

[Vashta Nerada]

24. Haha!

You're exactly right.

[SteveG]

25. ????????????

Corporate users hate win 8. nobody has a touch screen, and it's horrid to support (what I do for a living). The only way to make it usable for most keyboard and mouse users is to install a front end like Classic Shell.

[tridim]

26. I'm a corporate user and support tech.

Nobody in our office hates Windows 8. Only haters do that.

Windows 8 works with a mouse just like all previous OS's (95, 98, NT, XP, Vista, Win7). No touch screen needed. You would know that if you really are in tech support.

Mac people think this is a gotcha because the commercials show windows 8 being used with a touch screen. A touch screen is nothing more than using your finger as a mouse.

I suggest you use it once and report back after you know how it works.

[SteveG]

30. I know all that,

I use it on my home system and my work laptop. But for users who don't have touch screens the metro interface gets in the way.

The University I work for has over 10,000 systems operational, we are sticking with Win 7 at least until win9 comes out. I have been doing IT tech support for 33 years since 1981. Of all the interfaces microsoft has foisted on it;s users, Metro is by far the worst (unless you are using a phone or tablet). Under the hood 8 is fine.

[liberal N proud]

28. My only complaint about Windows 8 is the tiles

And touch screen.

I do not use Apple systems.

[bowens43]

11. there are no upgrades in windows you just make a lateral move from shit operating system to the next

[B2G]

12. Software companies can't support old releases forever

It's not like this is a surprise or anything.

[liberal N proud]

27. No doubt - it was just the Were here for you part that got me

[B2G]

29. 'and have your credit card handy' nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Message to Microsoft: You're the reason I got Linux.

so fuck off.

Love,
Dixie

[WillyT]

31. The Major Problem Is Step 1...

Paraphrasing: Many older PC's will not support Windows 8.1, so...

BUY A NEW PC.

I'm moving to Linux (Unbuntu) this month.

Free... and... easy.